If all you want is to add extra space to store your files, it is easier to format the newly created space and access it as an external partition in Ubuntu. In the Virtual Media Manager section, select your virtual drive and select the Properties tab, you will see a Size section where you can change the size.
VIRTUALBOX INCREASE DISK SIZE WINDOWS
In your Windows Explorer, you should be able to verify that the hard drive has increased in size.ĭepending on your hard drive setup, it can be a difficult (or easy) task to extend the active partition. Now press and hold CTRL key and drag the dark arrow to the end. VirtualBox reports an actual size of 500 GB and a virtual size of 800 GB. Click on Already partitioned drive > ( Resize/Move). Change directory to F:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox and then run the following from Windows command prompt. These steps all appeared to be successful. Then I logged into the guest and installed/ran gparted to allocate the new space to my main partition. Right click on the active partition and select "Extend Volume". In order to do so, I went to File > Virtual Media Manager in the VirtualBox UI and expanded the drive from 500 to 800 GB. Select Settings >Storage and change Gparted from Primary Master to something else. This functionality allows you to increase the size of the virtual disk in a simple and. In the screen that show up, you should see a new blank unallocated partition at the right of the active partition. In this example, the machine is called Ubuntu resize Dec1. New versions of VirtualBox have a feature called Virtual Media Manager. Select the "Create and format hard disk partitions" option.
At the Windows command prompt, type: D:\>VBoxmanage modifyhd MyLinux.vdi -resize 100000. In Windows 8, you can perform a search using the "Search" icon in the sidebar, but you will need to select the "Settings" option. Go into the Windows command prompt (Start->type cmd into the box) cd to the location of the VDI file that you wish to resize, e.g., d:\MyLinux.vdi. In your Windows OS, Click on Start and type "partition" in the search bar. vdi file is the location of the VirtualBox disk you want to resize. In your Virtualbox screen, you should be able to see that the virtual size has increased, but when you run the OS, it will still show the old partition size.
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